Britain's Rush Bridge Job How Detroit Treats "Reds"
At left: CLAIMED to be Britain's biggest "rush job."—In less than two hours a new railway…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1932
3,413 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 171
Wilkins Plans Other Trips to Search Antarctic From the Air Special Aeroplane Oklahoma (Nebraska)
Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Intrepid Australian explorer and airman, who last year attempted to reach the North Pole in a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arrangements for King's Message at Opening Ceremony of Harbor Bridge London
On the assumption that the King will take part in the opening of the Sydney Harbor Bridge, a conference was held this afternoon of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Youth Struck by Tram Sydney
George Watson, 15, of Allison-road, Randwick, was critically injured when struck by another tram while riding on the rear buffer-bar of a tram near Coogee…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Call to Albury Motorist
Henry George Twomey, of Albury, who is believed to be touring the Newcastle district in a baby Austin car, is asked to return home immediatelyy. His father…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Refreshment Rooms
With a score of 98.25 per cent., Taree has become the holder of the railway refreshment rooms championship cup (writes our Taree correspondent). The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor-lorry Stolen Sydney
By forcing the wicket door in the front gate of the factory of Telegraph Supplies, Ltd., White-street. Leichhardt, early this morning thieves entered the premises and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Cars at Chicago Funerals "Must Be Union Owned" Chicago
Hereafter in Chicago you may attend a funeral only in a union motor car. The undertaken have issued, a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boy Struck While Leaning From Tram Search for Relatives Sydney
Police searched all night for the relatives of a boy who fell from a tram at Coogee, and for whoso life doctors are fighting at St. Vincent's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Speer's Pt. Tram Problem Electrification Is Urged
That the Speer's Point tram route should be electrified was the contention of Alderman England at a meeting of Wallsend Regatta Club, held at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rubber Roads
The interesting topic of rubber roads was dealt with by a scientist at a lecture-debate of the Manchester section of the Institution of the Rubber Industry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Harbour Bridge Opening London, January 8
Subject to overcoming technical difficulties, the British Broadcasting Company is agreeable to devote half an hour broadcasting the Sydney bridge opening, which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Spreading of Rails Wheat Train's Misadventure WALLERAWANG
Owing to the spreading of the rails, a train laden with wheat was derailed when passing through the Wallerawang shunting yards to-day. The tender and three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bodies Found Two U.S. Women Fliers Aeroplane on Mountain Harrisburg (Penna), January 7
The widespread search for the two intrepid women fliers, Mrs. Debbie Stewart and Mrs. Ruth Stewart, ended to-day, when their crushed bodies were found in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shocking Tragedy at Culcairn Young Man Mangled by Train Junee
The discovery of a torn cardigan jacket on a lamp bracket on the Melbourne-Sydney Express this morning, when it pulled up at Junee, led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Lighting Bill for Bridge Turned on Last Night for First Time Sydney
Within the limits of the available money, work on the Harbor Bridge is being rushed so that weather conditions will not delay the opening…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Men in Goods Shed Surprised by Constable Railway Employees Arrested Singleton
Hearing sounds of tapping the railway goods-shed at 2.30 o'clock this morning, Constable Laycock went inside, and saw two men, who immediately attempted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inverell Fire Storage Shed Destroyed Two Motor-cars Inside Inverell
A serious fire occurred in Inverell at 10 o'clock last night, when a combined storage shed the property of Charles O'Loughlin, and containing two motor cars,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Strike Favoured Railwaymen Against Wage Cut WINNIPEG, January 7
Manitoba and Carmen track workers of the Street Railway Company voted by an overwhelming majority in favour of a strike in protest against the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor-cyclist Injured Wollongong
Noel Stenton, Night Officer at Corrimal Station, was riding a motor cycle along Burelli-street, when he collided with a motor ear. He sustained scalp injuries,…
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